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Congrats to the ISRO <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />Link....<br /><br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p><b>India's large satellite launcher returns to flight</b><br /><br />It was a day of redemption for India's space program Sunday, when the nation's most powerful rocket returned to the skies for the first time since a booster engine failure doomed a launch last year.<br /> <br />The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, making its fifth flight since debuting in 2001, blasted away from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on Sriharikota Island. Liftoff was at 1250 GMT (8:50 a.m. EDT), the exact time of sunset on India's east coast.<br /><br />The 161-foot-tall rocket flew east over the Bay of Bengal on track to deposit the INSAT 4CR communications satellite into orbit. <br /> /><br /> /><p><hr /></p></p></blockquote> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>